Quotes with time-zone

Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 2702.

  • Nicolas Chamfort Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Beck Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Anne W. Schaef Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible - even when those steps are taken on the run.
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  • Barry Diller Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Beck Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Robert Collier Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Doris Lessing Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Arthur Koestler Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bo Bennett Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Susan Cain Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
    Susan Cain
    self-help writer (1968 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Brock Lesnar Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Carol Bartz Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Still may syllabes jar with time,
    Still may reason war with rhyme,
    Resting never!
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Greg Anderson Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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